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Technology and Senses

Technology is all around us. We may not realize it but we use technology a lot more than we think. Some of us use it more than others. For example, I wear glasses so I’m using a type of technology. I’m using this particular technology to enhance one of my five senses, sight. My eyes are bad and without glasses everything would be blurry. However, with my glasses, my eyesight is enhanced and I am capable of using my flawed sense of sight. Much like I use glasses to enhance my sense of sight, other people use other types of technologies to enhance their senses. There are hearing aids for people who cannot hear well, and there are also prosthetic parts, which can enhance the sense of tact.

Television is one of the most popular technological creations others and I use. With a television, we can gain physically see different cultures and see how an issue affects other states or countries. Not only does the television allow us to physically see these things, it also provides us a different point of view of how people from different cultures live their life, as we can see their daily lives or common traditions from their own eyes and how they perceive them. The television was a great innovation that has allowed mankind to be able to display and pass on different cultures and traditions. An example for me would be anime. Animes are Japanese cartoons that I watch in my spare time. Even though these may be animated and fictional, they do give an insight as to how people in the Japanese culture live their daily lives.

Another example of a visual device that can broaden your minds and world are movies. Movies, much like animes, give you an insight of how a culture is like and how people behave, but on a much larger scale. Not only is a movie much like an anime, but also a movie is much more extreme. A movie can come from literally anywhere whereas an anime is mostly just Japanese and Asian. Movies, unlike anime, are actual human actors, not voice actors so by observing their behaviors and the way they carry themselves can also say a lot about how their culture is. Movies also allow us to see different parts of the earth, which allows us to appreciate the different environments, communities, civilizations, and societies there are around the world.